To amortize a loan, use the table above as an example: 1  Note your starting loan balance: $20,000. 2  Figure out the payment (calculation shown on this page): $377.42. 3  Figure out the interest charge for each period â usually monthly (calculation shown on this page): $83.33 in the first month.
$104.3 million less in dividend payments after buying back shares. Apple now has 861.74 million shares outstanding, a significant drop from just one quarter ago when it had 892.55 million outstanding shares. The company's stock buyback program acquired 31.7 million shares in the March quarter, and will retire them.
While outstanding shares are a determinant of a stockâs liquidity, the latter is largely dependent on its share float. A company may have 100 million shares outstanding, but if 95 million of these shares are held by insiders and institutions, the float of only 5 million may constrain the stockâs liquidity.